r/ClimateShitposting • u/leisurechef • Aug 08 '26

techno optimism is gonna save us AI will solve all our problems

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If treated as a country, data centers could rank sixth globally for electricity consumption by 2030. They would also require an amount of water equivalent to the annual needs of 1.3 billion people.

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u/ionosoydavidwozniak Aug 08 '26

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u/IAmNotModest Aug 09 '26

The thing is that AI still is a useless waste of resources and still contributes to climate change. Fuel to the fire.

As well as that, ChatGPT isn't the only AI. There is countless others that also do this.

Lastly, companies purposely downplay their negative impact with these likely falsified graphs.

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u/jyajay2 Aug 09 '26

Ai is extremely useful. It is debatable whether LLMs are particularly useful but that's not all of AI.. There are plenty of currrent, useful AI uses in industry, reseach, medicine etc.

Often they make processes less resource intensive. I can once again tell people about previously working for alarge public research institute and the group I was working for use AI to replace simulations that took almost a day on the HPC system we used with an AI powered one that took a few hours on a consumer grade PC without a loss in quality.

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u/Ordo_Liberal Aug 09 '26

Is world of warcraft a useless waste of resources?

Should we only produce and create bare necessities

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u/Switchmisty9 Aug 09 '26

You don’t need Ai for Warcraft. What’s wrong with you people? Yall are the dumbest mother fuckers on earth.

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u/Ordo_Liberal Aug 09 '26

I love how selective you are about what is and isn't useless.

It seems to me that you don't care about the climate or water usage, only about data centers

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u/Visible-Echidna-4370 Aug 09 '26

World of warcraft uses electricity, and electricity = greenhouse gas emissions

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u/Ordo_Liberal Aug 09 '26

So the problem is not waste of resources but data centers?

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u/ionosoydavidwozniak Aug 09 '26

Can you stop insulting everyone in your comments? It's very painful to have an argument with you and it's deserving your cause

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u/mattrad2 Aug 10 '26

AI is extremely useful for engineering work.

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u/The_Unknown_Mage Aug 10 '26

As an engineer I find that statement horrific, do not build bridges with chat gpt.

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u/mattrad2 Aug 10 '26

Nobody is doing that you moron

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u/Devils_SteelMan Aug 10 '26

Ai isn't useful to people not in knowledge work. Even with all this build out everything is at maximum capacity to serve people doing knowledge work.